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I just got the OK from ASN to post this here on DA (lotta acronyms there ).

Back in September I got a request to do a graphic for AvatarSpirit.Net. Needless to say, already being a big fan I nearly tripped over my own e-mail in enthusiastic acceptance .

They wanted a picture of Aang in a spacesuit, standing next to an ASN flag. This was for the introduction of ASN's new screenshot database search, dubbed "Project Apollo" -- hence the moon-landing theme of the pic.

Fanartists, the database is an invaluable resource for all your Avatar reference needs. If you're looking for specific screenshots, you'll be able to find them in a snap with this tool .

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My thanks goes out to ASN and Acastus for giving me the opportunity to draw something for them... and for all the pageviews/messages that resulted from their mentioning my DA gallery .

The stars were done by first setting up black layer behind Aang and the foreground there. Next, I used Filter>Add Noise... and gave it a high setting (around 75, I think; it's best to just make sure the 'noise' fills up a good portion of the layer), with 'Gaussian distribution.' After that, I went to Image>Adjustments>Brightness and Contrast... and set the brightness low and contrast high. This ends up creating a nice sharp star field. The stars will look softer when shrinking the image down when you're done; before I did so with this image, it just looked like a bunch of jagged, white pixels in the sky .